@techreport{Burhop2009transfer,
abstract = {We describe the transfer of patents in late 19th- and early 20th- century Germany using a new and comprehensive database containing information on about 20,000 transactions. The number of transactions shows an upward trend, in total numbers and as a share of patents in force. In total, about eight percent of patents were transferred at least once during their existence. Many transactions involved the transfer of patents with an above-average quality from individual inventors to firms and to newly-created - entrepreneurial - firms. In addition, valuable patents were transferred between firms. About two-thirds of all transfers occurred during the first three years of a patents’ existence, giving the new owner potentially a long period of patent protection.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Carsten Burhop},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {N73; O34; 330; Economic History; Germany; pre-1913; Patents; Technology transfer},
language = {eng},
number = {2009,26},
publisher = {Max Planck Inst. for Research on Collective Goods},
title = {The transfer of patents in Imperial Germany},
type = {Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/32192},
year = {2009}
}